System Requirements

Make sure that components in the Veeam Agent management infrastructure meet system requirements listed below.

Veeam Backup Server

To learn about system requirements for the Veeam backup server, see the System Requirements section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

Veeam Agent Computer (Microsoft Windows)

A machine that you want to protect with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows must meet the following requirements:

Specification

Requirement

Hardware

CPU: x86-64 processor.

Memory: 2 GB RAM.

Disk Space: 150 MB for product installation.

Network: 1 Mbps or faster1.

System firmware: BIOS or UEFI.

Drive encryption: Microsoft BitLocker (optional)2.

1 High latency and reasonably unstable WAN links are supported.

2 BitLocker encrypted volumes must be unlocked at the moment when Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows starts the backup or restore operation. Only Microsoft BitLocker is supported for drive encryption. Other drive encryption products are not supported.

OS

Both 64-bit and 32-bit (where applicable) versions of the following operating systems are supported1:

3 Veeam CBT driver is supported only if Microsoft Windows update KB3033929 is installed on the Veeam Agent computer.

Each Veeam Agent Computer that consumes a license installed in Veeam Backup & Replication must have a unique BIOS UUID.

File System

Microsoft Windows FAT, NTFS, ReFS file systems are supported.

Software

The following required 3rd party software is included in the Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Redistributable. During the Veeam Agent deployment process, Veeam Backup & Replication checks whether all prerequisite software is available on the target computer. If some of the required software components are missing, Veeam Backup & Replication will install missing software automatically.

The supported file system can reside on a simple volume or LVM2 volume. Data that reside in other file systems can be backed up using the snapshot-less mode. For details, see the Snapshot-Less File-Level Backup section in the Veeam Agent for Linux User Guide.

1 Consider the following:

Veeam Agent for Linux does not back up volumes that reside on USB devices.

Backup of machines used as cluster nodes is not supported (that includes backup of machines that use shared disks, clustered file systems or clustered LVM).

Important! Linux user account used to work with Veeam Agent for Linux must have the /bin/bash shell set as the default shell.

Protected computer must have the following components installed1:

dkms2

gcc2

make2

perl2

kernel-headers2

kernel-devel2

libudev

libacl

libattr

lvm2

libfuse

libncurses53

dmidecode4

openssh-server

openssh-clients

efibootmgr (for UEFI-based systems)

isolinux (for Debian-based systems)

syslinux (for RedHat-based systems)

1 To install Veeam Agent for Linux packages on a target computer, Veeam Backup & Replication uses the default package manager of the Linux distribution running on this computer. During the installation process, the package manager checks whether all prerequisite software is available on the computer. If some of the required software components are missing, the package manager will attempt to install the missing packages from a software repository configured in the OS.

3 For openSUSE 15.0 and SLES 15 (SP0) distributions, either of the following packages is required: libncurses5 or libncurses6.

4 Required for Veeam Agent management — a valid BIOS UUID must be obtainable either from dmidecode | grep -i uuid or from /sys/class/dmi/id/product_uuid. Each Veeam Agent that consumes a license installed in Veeam Backup & Replication must have a unique BIOS UUID. If a valid UUID cannot be obtained, Veeam will generate it automatically.

1 Advanced integration with HPE StoreOnce storage appliances via the HPE StoreOnce Catalyst technology is not supported. If you want to use an HPE StoreOnce storage appliance as a Veeam backup repository, use it as a CIFS share.